Quoted from hool10:

I have lived in MA for 30 years and NH for 2 years. I will just lump New England in 1 big pro/con thing.
Pro's
1) Pinball scene is pretty good.
2) You can travel to NYC in 4 hours, can travel to Maine, CT, etc, etc within a day.
3) Boston is a pretty cool city. I would say around '10'ish it started to become less of a ghetto and actual fun stuff to do. However around '16 it has started going downhill. Very confident when Trump gets re-elected the second Civil War will start here.
4) Electronic stores are DA BOMB here!
5) Some great food is here with breweries everywhere.
6) The Fall sometimes is nice.
7) Our kickass sport teams and sports in general.
8 ) History here is pretty great like Paul Revere house, etc.
Con's
1) People here are pure garbage. This stands for all of New England. They will steal, lie, just try and fuck you over and your family. Not every person here but most. Striking up a conversation here is pretty much impossible as people mainly hang out with their family, play with their dog, watch tv, work. It's VERY cliquey. I will give you a tip actually about the competitive pinball scene here. If you are not good at pinball or not show up to a lot to events, people will not talk to you because you are not good or "commited". Not all of them are like this but some of the real hardcore people are and you know some of them already.
2) The taxes are insanely bad here. NH has a no seat belt law or income tax so they don't have federal funding for their roads. They have to pay for it somehow so property values rival NJ. ME has $5+ toll roads every mile.
3) Crime is REALLY bad here.
4) I cannot underestimate this enough but the amount of racism here is truly insane and this goes for all of New England. You will find a few African Americans in Boston and that is it. No Asians in VT, ME, NH or RI just Boston.
5) The winters and really the weather controls your life. Often Winter will start mid October and end around mid-late May. Summer is usually super hot and humid. Usually a tornado will touch down in western MA and insurance companies get away with not covering it because the weatherman called it a "Supercell". Northern parts of NH, ME, VT have mudslides. We have nor'easters which is essentially a snowstorm and hurricane. Sometimes we have snowstorms with thunder and lightning called "thunder snow" in fact.
6) Back to the people/sports thing. We are super proud of our sports teams but our fans are terrible. Not the worst but pretty bad.
7) Our fashion here sucks. All we wear is sport team shirts, flannel, and bargain clothing from Bob Stores.
8 ) Drug use here is pretty hardcore and prevalent (depressed from the people, high taxes, and weather). Parents will hook their children onto pot at a very young age often and smoke with them well into adulthood. They will supply the alcohol. Often this leads to harder drugs like cocaine. Donald Trump said that NH is a "drug infested den" and it's very much true. Manchester, NH is SO BAD with drugs. Recently MA legalized pot and now you will be driving or walking in the city of Boston and just smell the shit. It doesn't smell like cologne or perfume! No it smells like Jesse Pinkman shit hole house! The ME residents are just constantly on pot. We constantly have to tell them to smoke their shit outside in their car and they will often just get baked on the lawn in between rounds.
9) A lot of Democrats here but it feels like they are the minority. TONS of Trumpers in NH like TONS. Really all of New England but NH loves him.
10) History here is great but you can't mess with it. It's Paul Revere house and it ain't moving! Not much space so what you are left with is struggling to work around the history rather than building.
11) VT, RI, CT people don't venture out of their state. ME not often either but sometimes they do. This causes issues with the NEPL finals and trying to prod them with a stick so they leave their house.
Next year I am planning on moving to TX. I went to my first TPF this year and I didn't see any Trumpers, incredibly easy to talk to people, the food OMG, the weather, stuff to do. I wanna work for Lockheed Martin. I'm only 32 and single. Where in TX should I go? I heard Austin is where all the hippies go and east Texas is where all the rednecks are.

Quoted from boscokid:

Virgilio's Scali bread is the best reason I can think of to live in Massachusetts